From informal housing to apartment housing: exploring the ‘new social’ in a gecekondu rehousing project, Turkey

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buir.contributor.authorErman, Tahire
dc.citation.epage537en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber3en_US
dc.citation.spage519en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber34en_US
dc.contributor.authorErman, Tahireen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-21T16:03:07Z
dc.date.available2019-02-21T16:03:07Z
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article engages with the question of the ‘new social’ that emerges in the relocation of the poor in slum renewal projects. Drawing upon both Lefebvre’s theorization of abstract space of capital and social space of people, and the neoliberal framework in which the economic dominates the social, the complex relationship between the spatial and the social embedded in political economy is demonstrated. In the Turkish context, the ‘new social’ is situated at the intersection of spatial transformations, housing representations, neoliberalism and Islam. In the housing estate of the case study, the abstract space was challenged by the bottom-up responses of some residents who tried to create their social space rooted in their previous experiences in the gecekondu; it was reacted by other residents who embraced the higher status of apartment living. The void produced by destroying the gecekondu habitus was filled by religious activities and consumption-inspired everyday practices.
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dc.identifier.doi10.1080/02673037.2018.1458293
dc.identifier.eissn1466-1810en_US
dc.identifier.issn0267-3037
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/50076
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2018.1458293
dc.source.titleHousing Studiesen_US
dc.subjectGecekondu rehousing projectsen_US
dc.subjectIslamen_US
dc.subjectNeoliberalismen_US
dc.subjectSocial space/abstract spaceen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectUrban renewal projectsen_US
dc.titleFrom informal housing to apartment housing: exploring the ‘new social’ in a gecekondu rehousing project, Turkeyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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